| War on Terror

Prominent Neo-Con: Suspend Constitution!

by Paul Gessing

Charles Krauthammer will never be mistaken for a lover of freedom, but in this column he argues that just as the Supreme Court turned a blind eye from Lincoln's jailing of his political opponents during the Civil War and Roosevelt's internment of the Japanese , the current Supreme Court should simply ignore President Bush's ongoing violations of the Constitution.

Of course, in an indefinite "war on terror," he is essentially arguing that Bush should have the ability to do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, regardless of the Constitution, as long as it is done to fight terrorism. Come to think of it, that is really the neo-conservative philosophy in a nutshell: perpetual war for perpetual peace.

-- Paul Gessing